Just a line to say that I have your kind letter of Feb. 6th, containing the information that I so much wanted. I thank you very much for it. I am trying very hard to put together an article for the _Journal of Hygiene_, as I wrote you, but between the class and other work, it’s deuced hard to accomplish a half hour’s work on it daily. Did you see Souchon’s reply to Carroll and myself in the Record for January 8th?... If I can get a little time, after awhile, I may reply to him.... This should reach you in the midst of the meeting of the Congress. Do, pray, persuade them to accept the mosquito transmission and change their sanitation accordingly. I trust to you, Havard, Kean and Guiteras to do this. Make my kind regards to Mrs. Gorgas. I am so glad that you are going to remain in Havana for awhile. You should stay during the whole summer and fall.... Good-bye. Sincerely yours, REED. (19) War Department, Surgeon General’s Office, Army Medical Museum and Library, Washington, April 3, 1902. MY DEAR GORGAS: Yours of March 28th reached me yesterday.... I was simply delighted with your Annual Report. What a glorious record! No wonder, my dear boy, that you should grow eloquent, as you did, in your closing paragraph. It made my heart beat faster as I read it. You have done a splendid work in Havana, my dear Gorgas, one that should always give you the greatest pleasure to look back upon. You have my sincere admiration and congratulations. _We will really and truly have to go on that Toot when you land on your native heath, once more!!_ But if I had my way, you would remain in charge of sanitary matters in Havana for another summer! I have told Gen. Sternberg so. It would be such a pity to have this splendid work all undone, for the lack of an enlightened Health Official. Who will succeed you? His position will be the most important on the Island.... Adios, my dear friend. May Heaven bless you. Your friend, REED. (20) War Department, Surgeon General’s Office, Army Medical Museum and Library, Washington, May 14, 1902. MY DEAR GORGAS: I received your reprints and was very much pleased with them and to know that you are doing such good missionary work. Modification of quarantine will come slowly but surely. Am delighted to know that you will be here on your way from Saratoga.... So you have really applied stegomyia again to y. f.? Dear me! Haven’t you had experience enough? If you are going to do this thing much more, Carroll and I will join you on your way back to Havana. There are several problems to be worked out, from a scientific point of view.... Are you not a delegate to the Assoc. of Military Surgeons? I though that you were. If you should arrive before May 28th, you could join us in the dinner to Gen. and Mrs. Sternberg. Wish so much that you could be here with Mrs. Gorgas, as I know that you would both enjoy the occasion....